What Else Can You Do With a Thesaurus?

August 22, 2014 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on What Else Can You Do With a Thesaurus?

Have an old Roget’s lying around? If you follow in this girl’s footsteps you just might have a new wardrobe. Huffington Post brought this odd but interesting news in their article, “Thesaurus Dress Sold To Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.” In this day and age of sustainability, recycling, upcycling and trash-to-treasures, we should not be surprised by any repurposing efforts. Yet we are.

A Vancouver actress and model made a dress out of pages from a thesaurus. As if that isn’t a story on its own, the outfit has been sold to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Jori Phillips made waves last summer when her dress, which she cut and glued together for a costume at the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival, went viral. “It feels like a fairy tale,” said Phillips. We would agree.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.